1. Rastus, the Cream of Wheat chef, created circa 1890 by Emery Mapes, one of the owners of Diamond Milling Company. Mapes adapted the image of an African American chef for a wood-cut image used as a logo for the product. In the 1920s, the woodcut image was replaced by the face of a Chicago waiter who was paid $5 to pose in a chef's hat and jacket. This logo has been used with only slight modifications until the present day.
2. A stereotype of the jolly, former slave, and a character of the coon type often featured in minstrel shows.
3. A pejorative name used by white folk for African American males in the 20th Century.
2. A stereotype of the jolly, former slave, and a character of the coon type often featured in minstrel shows.
3. A pejorative name used by white folk for African American males in the 20th Century.
"By no means a lesser virtue of Toole's novel is his rendering of the particularities of New Orleans, its back streets, its out-of-the-way neighborhoods, its odd speech, its ethnic whites -- and one black in whom Toole has achieved the near-impossible, a superb comic character of immense wit and resourcefulness without the least trace of Rastus minstrelsy."
--Walker Percy, Foreword to 'A Confederacy of Dunces'
--Walker Percy, Foreword to 'A Confederacy of Dunces'
by Tunmy AuGratin February 25, 2006
by Cap'n Bullmoose August 6, 2005
A "Rastus 20" is a person wo is a terrible YouTuber. They like to rage quit and love shitty games like rocket league.
by Digimon fan123 November 29, 2016